First Mondays

First Mondays is an entertaining podcast about the Supreme Court, co-hosted by Ian Samuel, a former law clerk for Justice Scalia, and Dan Epps, a former law clerk for Justice Kennedy. Each episode, we discuss the Court’s business that week: cases it agrees to hear, oral arguments, its opinions, and much more.

Global Dispatches

Hi-Phi Nation

Hi-Phi Nation is the first story-driven, high-production narrative show about philosophy. Every week we begin with a story, from law, politics, science, the arts, or everyday life, and transform that story into philosophical ideas.

Illusion

True stories of impossible things, and the people behind them. Illusion is a bi-weekly podcast that explores the many forms of illusion we encounter. Written and produced by Brian Earl, Illusion tells true stories about magicians, grifters, artists, and visionaries.

The Lawfare Podcast

The Lawfare Podcast is the weekly audio production of the Lawfare staff in cooperation with the Brookings Institution. Podcast episodes include interviews with policymakers, scholars, journalists, and analysts; events and panel discussions.

Rational Security

Rational Security is a weekly roundtable podcast featuring Shane Harris of the Wall Street Journal, Susan Hennessey and Benjamin Wittes of Lawfare and the Brookings Institution, and Tamara Cofman Wittes, of the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings. It's a lively and irreverent discussion of news, ideas, foreign policy, and law. There's always a laugh. Often, there are guests. Sometimes there's even Scotch.

SWOTI - Something's Wrong on the Internet

Someone's Wrong on the Internet (SWOTI) is a podcast from two POCs for whom pop culture is political, the political is personal, and the personal is a lens to unpack it all. SWOTI features intelligent and inclusive conversation that attends specifically to issues relating to LGBT, POC, and leftist perspectives, supported by the humor and emotional depth that many listeners would expect from conversations with their own bffs.

While Commuting

Wired to Be Weird

We chat about the brain and how it interacts with the environment, with topics ranging from addiction, anxiety, and Alzheimer’s Disease, to dreams, déjà vu, and brain computer interfaces. We try to avoid leaning too much on jargon, but base our conversations on the latest peer-reviewed research to keep listeners up-to-date on discoveries in neuroscience.

Bombshell

Everyday Ethics

Everyday Ethics is a weekly podcast that takes a look at many of the ethical dilemmas that face us every day, and attempts to break them down for easier understanding. Hosted by veteran broadcaster Craig Kopp, featuring media ethicist Kelly McBride and medical ethicist Art Caplan, Everyday Ethics helps you to know the difference between what you have a right to do and what's right to do.

The CNAS Podcast Series

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is an independent, bipartisan, nonprofit organization that develops strong, pragmatic, and principled national security and defense policies. CNAS engages policymakers, experts, and the public with innovative, fact-based research, ideas, and analysis to shape and elevate the national security debate.

The Secret Room

The Lonely Palette

Man, art history. It's so snooty. And boring. Right?

Or maybe...wrong? As it turns out, art history is as interesting and accessible as its stories. And the stories are why you're here.

Each episode of The Lonely Palette, creator and host Tamar Avishai picks an object du jour, interviews unsuspecting passers-by in front of it, and then dives deeply into the movement, the social context, the anecdotes, and anything and everything else that will make it as exciting to you as it is to her.